Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta

[sundown]

Some good deeds by AMD. People should be really happy they took over ATI

[Kano]

That driver is crappy as all drivers since 8.40.4 which was the last which showed PointSprites, most simple test is to use gl2benchmark, which is even possible with intrepid using:

deb http://kanotix.com/files/fix/gl2benchmark.sid ./
deb-src http://kanotix.com/files/fix/gl2benchmark.sid ./

Try with nvidia to see how it should look like...

[Michael]

That driver is crappy as all drivers since 8.40.4 which was the last which showed PointSprites, most simple test is to use gl2benchmark, which is even possible with intrepid using:

deb http://kanotix.com/files/fix/gl2benchmark.sid ./
deb-src http://kanotix.com/files/fix/gl2benchmark.sid ./

Try with nvidia to see how it should look like...

It works with FlightGear... Can you find any other OpenSceneGraph program where PointSprites don't work?

[Kano]

Isn't one test app enough? That's a test tool, that should test some needed functions which definitely work with nvidia. Of course the production apps are not all opensource. Maybe somebody else knows additional examples.

[EmbraceUnity]

Intrepid is basically perfect now. I just wish it could have come with OpenOffice.org 3.0. I don't think that is possible now, but you never know.

[Michael]

Isn't one test app enough? That's a test tool, that should test some needed functions which definitely work with nvidia. Of course the production apps are not all opensource. Maybe somebody else knows additional examples.

gl2benchmark is a no longer maintained tool though...

[yoshi314]

i guess that's the end of the line in amd's beta catalyst program for canonical. i suspect ati's going to be pretty angry about this.

unless they changed their beta policy.

[Kano]

The source is there, everybody can add new features. And it just works the way it is.

[sundown]

i guess that's the end of the line in amd's beta catalyst program for canonical. i suspect ati's going to be pretty angry about this.

unless they changed their beta policy.

I bet that was a co-ordinate move.

[Kano]

Also I see no reason why the tool should get ATI extra workarounds, it worked before it has to work now!